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Showing 1 to 20 of 28 for “"grammaticality judgment"”.
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Processing of code-mixed sentences by two types of bilinguals: A comparison of code-mixers and non-code-mixers
… sentences. Task 2 was a non-timed metalinguistic grammaticality judgment task in which the same subjects were asked to indicate if the code-mixed sentences presented in the timed task were acceptable or unacceptable code-mixed sentences.
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The sensitive period for second language acquisition: An experimental study of age effects on universal grammar and language transfer
… time) of responses was measured in addition to grammaticality judgment so that the subjects' conscious monitoring of linguistic processes could be kept at a minimum. The reaction time measurement also provided information on the subjects' fluency of processing. Materials were developed within …
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Grammatical Gender Representation and Processing in Advanced Second Language Learners of French
… inherent property of a noun. Second, an online grammaticality judgment task addressed L2 learners' gender agreement ability during processing, while taking into account (a) the role of gender cues available to the participant, and (b) non-linguistic processing constraints such as working memory …
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An investigation of the reliability of L2 learners' grammaticality judgments
… the reliability of L2 learners' grammatical judgments of relative clause structures and how well their judgments support the construct validity of the Keenan & Comrie (19 77) accessibility hierarchy. The study was a replication with modifications of Gass (1994). The experiment employed a …
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Creating an SLI performance profile with load
… of SLI in typically developing children within a grammaticality judgment task, featuring structures historically difficult (third person singular –S and auxiliary BE) and easy (plural –S and progressive –ING) for individuals with SLI. Cognitive load was manipulated through the length of the …
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Binding Interpretations in Adult Bilingualism: A Study of Language Transfer in L2 Learners and Heritage Speakers of Korean
… were conducted --- one with Truth Value Judgment with stories, which tests core binding properties such as size of Governing Category (Manzini and Wexler 1987) and Sub-command (Tang 1989), and the other with Grammaticality Judgment Task coupled with Preferential Sentence Interpretation, …
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"Marie Manje La Pom Nan." Examining the Cognitive Process of Restructuring and Advantage Selection in the Definite Article System in Haitian Creole Among U.S. Born Heritage Speakers of Haitian Creole
… tasks administered through a forced-choice grammaticality judgment experiment using real noun phrases and non-word phrases. Dependent measures were (i) accuracy, and (ii) morphophonological patterns of reanalysis.<br /><br />At the production level, the results of this investigation …
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The effects of written corrective feedback on second language writing focused on the English articles system
… analysis of four writing tasks and a grammaticality judgment test were carried out. Statistical analysis of the data showed that corrective feedback was effective on the acquisition of English articles, and keeping error logs after receiving corrective feedback was effective to help …
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Negative Sensitive Items: Conditions, Constraints, and Consequences
… of why it is difficult to draw a uniform grammaticality judgment on intervention effects involving other prima facie problematic interveners other than NSIs. I next move on to multiple NSI constructions in which multiple occurrences of NSIs express a single negative preposition. Given the …
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A classroom quasi-experimental study to explore Processing Instruction
… aiming to elicit implicit knowledge: A timed grammaticality judgment test, an oral picture narration, and a short structured conversation. Following these tests, a self-report technique was employed to check whether or not learners drew on explicit knowledge. A gap-fill test without a time …
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L1 English L2 German learners' grammaticality judgments and knowledge of demonstrative pronouns
… in advanced German classes were tested via a grammaticality judgment test to see whether they were able to successfully identify demonstrative pronouns in German as grammatical or if they interpreted the demonstrative to be an error. Additionally, participants were asked to discuss their …
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Non-standard Italian Dialect Heritage Speakers' Acquisition of Clitic Placement in Standard Italian
… HSs' usage of clitics, whereas the second was a Grammaticality Judgment task that examined HSs' explicit knowledge of this property. The overall findings of this pilot study suggest that HSs parallel their heritage dialect clitic word order in their usage of Standard Italian, even though they are …
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The Effect of Second Language Instruction on Acquisition of Relative Clauses in the Russian Language
… elicitation tasks: a combination test (CT) and a grammaticality judgment test (GJT). Both groups received instruction between the tests. The BG received instruction on the subject (S), the direct object (DO), and the indirect object (IO) RC positions. The CG received instruction only on the OPR …
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Phonological working memory and finiteness marking in typical development
… grammatical processing, as indexed by grammaticality judgment. These fundamental language abilities make particularly alluring candidates for investigation due to their central role in language development and academic achievement as well as their theoretical basis. Moreover, PWM and …
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The fundamental difference between child and adult language acquisition: a longitudinal, naturalistic study of parameter resetting in Swedish interlanguage
… confined themselves to the use of metalinguistic grammaticality judgment tasks (DeKeyser 2000). The present study is an exploratory test of the Fundamental Difference Hypothesis that takes a novel approach; it examines longitudinal, naturalistic data on the acquisition of Swedish syntax by …
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Effects of Holistic and Analytic Instructional Approaches on the Acquisition of Various Types of Formulaic Sequences: An Empirical Study of Adult Learners of English as a Second Language
… the recognition study, participants performed a grammaticality judgment task during which they had to determine grammatical correctness of various multi-word sequences, including the target formulaic sequences. The design of the study was a split-plot factorial with instructional approach as the …
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Errors in inflectional morphemes as an index of linguistic competence of Korean Heritage language learners and American learners of Korean
… and self-generated writing samples, and grammaticality judgment in a word completion (GJWC) test using the same inflectional morphemes used for the EA. Schlyter's Weak language (WL) as L2, Montrul's WL as L1, and the Missing Surface Inflection Hypothesis (MSIH) provided theoretical …
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Discourse-level instruction on the acquisition of English present perfect in academic writing
… participants completed a pretest consisting of grammaticality judgment, forced-choice, and fill-in-the-blank tasks. The same tasks, with different but comparable items, were administered immediately and four weeks after the completion of the instruction. The two instruction groups participated …
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The acquisition of complex wh- questions in the L2 English of Canadian French and Bulgarian speakers: Medial wh-constructions, inversion phenomena, and avoidance strategies
… in other languages? Two experiments, a written grammaticality judgment multiple-choice task and an oral elicited production task, were carried out with the two different learner populations and with English native speaker controls. The written experiments showed that medial wh- constructions …
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The Role of Individual Differences in the Acceptability of Island Violations in Native and Non-native Speakers
… and 72 Arabic learners of English, using a grammaticality judgment task. The results showed that Arabic learners, like English native speakers, were sensitive to syntactic island constraints on wh-movement as reflected in their lower acceptability judgments of ungrammatical island violation …
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